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What is a Slowly Changing Dimension? Slowly Changing Dimension (SCD) is a dimension that allows us to store and manage both current and previous data over time in a data warehouse. It is considered and implemented as one of the most critical ETL tasks in tracking the history of dimension records. There are three types […]

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What is a Slowly Changing Dimension? A Slowly Changing Dimension (SCD) is a dimension that stores and manages both current and historical data over time in a data warehouse. It is considered and implemented as one of the most critical ETL tasks in tracking the history of dimension records. Type 1 SCDs – Overwriting In […]

What is a Data warehouse? A Data warehouse is a concept that aggregates data from different sources into a single, central, consistent data store to provide meaningful business insights. It is typically used to connect and analyze heterogeneous sources of business data. To move data from one or more sources to the data warehouse, ETL […]

Quite often, while building the Data Integration Pipeline, Performance is a critical factor. The factors below are vital for following the guidelines while working on ETL processing with Informatica PowerCenter. The following items are to be considered during ETL DEV: Pre-Requisite Checks and Analysis Basic Tuning Guidelines Additional Tuning Practices Tuning Approach Pre-Requisite Checks/Analysis  Before […]

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The Challenge in Supply Chain Let’s face it. You and your suppliers are linked together and what they do affects you. So if your supplier data is fragmented across dozens or even hundreds of systems, it’s probably costing you. What is causing these supply chain leaks? Data stored in various places like supply chain management […]

Data is the lifeline of any modern organization. At any point, every day, you work on molding data points into information to derive profits. Therefore, having the right building blocks is a crucial part of running a good business. This is where the dynamic duo of ETL and SQL comes into play. While you may […]

Full Load: Full Load in ETL is loading ALL the data from the source to the destination. A target table is truncated before loading everything from the source. That’s why this technique is also known as Destructive Load. In full load first we truncate the destination table and then we load all the data from source […]

                                                                      Feature of Snowflake: Zero-Copy Cloning Zero Copy Cloning in Snowflake: Snowflakes have some advanced feature like Time Travel, zero-copy cloning […]

SQL Server Integration Services(SSIS): SQL Server Integration Services is a component of the Microsoft SQL Server database software that can be used to perform a broad range of data migration tasks. SSIS is a platform for data integration and workflow applications. It features a data warehousing tool used for data extraction, transformation, and loading. In […]

Informatica PowerCenter is an ETL tool which is used to extract data from source and apply some transformation rules on the source data and load it to the target system. Informatica indirect file load is an option used to load the data from multiple source files that have similar structure and properties. The integration service […]